December 2, 2006
The Tech Grinch’s Christmas List: No. 9 Halo 3
The countdown resumes on our Tech Grinch’s Xmas List of the many things you won’t be able to enjoy this Christmas:
9. Halo 3 - The most that Master Chief fans can expect to see of this Microsoft video game this Christmas is the new 60-second trailer showing in the breaks during the next Monday Night Football in the US and on Xbox.com and Xbox Live Marketplace thereafter. The biggest fans will also have the chance from Monday of registering for the public beta programme for Halo 3, which will begin in the spring. The games industry is coy about delays and some games may be pushed back for genuine reasons around timing. But Microsoft had to get out Gears of War as a Halo substitute to combat the launch of the PS3 and its Resistance: Fall of Man game. Gears sold 1m copies in its first two weeks. Sony is waiting on some big ones as well - such as the successor to Gran Turismo 4 and the high definition online version intended for this month but postponed this week. The next major Grand Theft Auto is still in the works and Will Wright’s long-awaited Spore is still being spawned by Electronic Arts. If you just bought a new quad-core gaming PC for the latest games for four brains - sorry, none available right now. But look out for Supreme Commander, a dual-screen military strategy game, in the New Year.
The countdown:
10. An Enzo Ferrari
